Message-ID: <4988BC45.4000904@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 2009-02-03T21:51:01Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: sub question
In-Reply-To: <4988A815.6080104@idi.ntnu.no>
Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote:
>> But can you be sure that there is no legitimate reason for expecting
>> the current behaviour?
>>
>
> you surely know the answer.
Actually, I don't. I was just pointing out the generic risk of fixing
something that isn't broken by breaking something that works. There's a
lot of conservatism in R where things don't get rationalized for similar
reasons. For quite a while, bug-for-bug compatibility with S-PLUS v 3.x
was considered important to allow people to port their packages between
systems.
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